Hacker News: john2x

New comment by john2x in "AI fakes duel over impeachment of Vice-President in Phillipines"

john2x — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:14:12 +0000

Once again the Philippines is leading the way with how these things will play out for other countries in the future[1]

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-38173842

New comment by john2x in "AI is ushering in a “tiny team” era"

john2x — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 22:59:55 +0000

The revolution is happening at the top.

New comment by john2x in "How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy"

john2x — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 04:27:10 +0000

Does this mean that if I can get ChatGPT to generate copyrighted text, they'll get in trouble?

New comment by john2x in "Claude Code: An Agentic cleanroom analysis"

john2x — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 23:40:28 +0000

Will these kinds of software end up like a programs written with bespoke Lisp macros? Lots of power but only one person actually knows it by heart.

New comment by john2x in "Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services"

john2x — Fri, 30 May 2025 19:46:40 +0000

There was a talk from Joe Armstrong about using property testing to test Dropbox.

New comment by john2x in "Severed Fingers and 'Wrench Attacks' Rattle the Crypto Elite"

john2x — Mon, 19 May 2025 00:11:36 +0000

If cryptobros didn't flaunt their wealth, crypto wouldn't have been where it is now. Flaunting is part of the spec.

New comment by john2x in "If nothing is curated, how do we find things"

john2x — Sun, 18 May 2025 00:37:02 +0000

That’s amazing. The post date is cherry on top.

New comment by john2x in "If nothing is curated, how do we find things"

john2x — Sat, 17 May 2025 23:03:32 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this in the context of my kids.

I am a bit of a snob (a huge one if I’m being honest) about media I consume. Naturally I guide the content my kids watch quite closely, much closer than my peers. I am their curator.

But I can’t help but feel I am isolating my kids when I do this. The things they watch and listen and play and read at home are vastly different than other kids their age.

New comment by john2x in "JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management"

john2x — Sat, 17 May 2025 14:20:48 +0000

New drop just dropped

New comment by john2x in "ClojureScript 1.12.42"

john2x — Fri, 16 May 2025 22:34:17 +0000

Ahh right. Yes I am in fact conflating the two.

But can the compiler be used without the library? Or can the library be used without the compiler/would it still be beneficial?

New comment by john2x in "Getting AI to write good SQL"

john2x — Fri, 16 May 2025 22:07:32 +0000

Use AI to generate the comments of course

New comment by john2x in "ClojureScript 1.12.42"

john2x — Fri, 16 May 2025 22:02:14 +0000

While the level of commitment to backwards compatibility is commendable, I had hoped this would trigger dropping GCL instead of forking it.

My surface level understanding is that GCL is a big reason why 3rd party libraries are a huge pain to use in Clojurescript.

Of course this would have went completely against the project’s goals, so it was never going to happen.

New comment by john2x in "OpenAI for Countries"

john2x — Thu, 08 May 2025 00:15:38 +0000

Ah yes, save 100ms for a chat response that takes 10 seconds to generate.

New comment by john2x in "People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies"

john2x — Mon, 05 May 2025 02:11:38 +0000

Problem solved

New comment by john2x in "Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart"

john2x — Sun, 04 May 2025 21:59:31 +0000

Yeah but you can't raise trillions of dollars with that. Investors want to be able to tell to their friends at parties that they helped made blackhole tech possible.

New comment by john2x in "Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes"

john2x — Sat, 03 May 2025 05:25:08 +0000

Would piracy become a problem in this case? Pirates would only have to deal with one lonely driver to get to multipe trucks’ worth of goods.

New comment by john2x in "OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal"

john2x — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:55:10 +0000

Technically it’s more expensive, because it cost engineer + $3.57 :)

New comment by john2x in "Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations"

john2x — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:53:13 +0000

> I don't understand why they don't fix this.

It makes number go up and to the right

New comment by john2x in "Tailscale has raised $160M"

john2x — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:20:50 +0000

We’re like trading cards to these people

New comment by john2x in "Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit"

john2x — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 06:47:21 +0000

Such accountability